Carnegie Mellon Robotics Syllabus and Logistics Instructor Erol

Carnegie Mellon Robotics – Syllabus and Logistics Instructor: Erol Şahin

Carnegie Mellon ”Weekly” syllabus ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ Week 1: History of Autonomous Robotics. Week 2: Representing Position and Orientation - 1 Week 3: Representing Position and Orientation - 2 Week 4: Time and Motion Week 5: Mobile robots – 2 Week 6: Navigation – 1 Week 7: Navigation – 2 Week 8: Localization and Mapping – 1 Week 9: Localization and Mapping – 2 Week 10: Robot Arm kinematics – 1 Week 11: Robot Arm kinematics – 2 Week 12: Configuration space Week 13: Planning – 1 Week 14: Planning - 2

Carnegie Mellon Teaching staff ¢ Instructor § Dr. Erol Sahin Location: B-111, Computer Eng. Dept. , § Tel: 210 5539, § E-mail: erol@ceng. metu. edu. tr § Office hours: By appointment. §

Carnegie Mellon Requirements ¢ Programming § In reality Decent programming and debugging skills § Familiarity with analyzing and plotting data § Decent amount of math § Have a basic understanding of Artificial Intelligence §

Carnegie Mellon What’s this course about? ¢ This course is § more about making robots autonomous, § less about building robots. ¢ Specifically, how should a robot’s control system be designed such that it can accomplish a task autonomously? § Note that, the design of the control system is highly related to the mechatronic body of the robot and that related technologies and designs will also be discussed as necessary.

Carnegie Mellon Textbook ¢ P. Corke. Robotics, vision and control: fundamental algorithms in MATLAB. Vol. 73. Springer S, 2011.

Carnegie Mellon Grading Policy ¢ [20%] Attendance § Possibly with reading assignments per week ¢ ¢ ¢ [30%] 1 Project [30%] 2 Homework [20%] Take-home final

Carnegie Mellon Communication ¢ All communication and sharing of documents will be done through: § Web: https: //piazza. com/metu. edu. tr/summer 2017/ceng 585/home

Carnegie Mellon Projects ¢ ¢ ¢ 1 project to give a hands-on experience Robot Operating System (ROS) will be used Project reports § 3 -6 pages § Evaluation will take into account Content § Style § Writing § Discussion § Should be of conference paper quality. §